"first expired at the end of 1987 in the UK, 50 years after Barrie's death, the UK government's Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 granted the hospital a perpetual right to collect royalties for public performances, commercial publication, or other communications to the public of the work but this does not constitute a true copyright. When copyright term itself was subsequently extended to the author's life plus 70 years by a European Union directive in 1996 standardising terms throughout the EU, GOSH revived its copyright of ""Peter Pan"" which then expired in 2007. The terms of the Copyright, Designs"
"and Patents Act now prevail in the UK. GOSH has been in legal disputes in the United States, where the copyright term is based on date of publication, putting the 1911 novel in the public domain, although the Hospital asserts that the 1928 version of the play is still under copyright in the US. The hospital has relied on charitable support since it first opened. One of the main sources for this support is Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. Whilst the NHS meets the day-to-day running costs of the hospital, the fundraising income allows Great Ormond Street Hospital to"
"Great Ormond Street Hospital Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is the largest centre for child heart surgery in the UK and one of the largest centres for heart transplantation in the world. In 1962 they developed the first heart and lung bypass machine for children. With children's book author Roald Dahl, they developed an improved shunt valve for children"
"Hospital Children's Charity's logo). The acronym 'GOSH' then changed into the initials 'NHS', turning into the shape of a crescent moon as the children were hushed to sleep and read books by the nurses. The sequence then moved on to celebrate British children's literature. J. K. Rowling began by reading from J. M. Barrie's ""Peter Pan"" (whose copyright was given to Great Ormond Street Hospital). The Child Catcher appeared amongst the children, followed by giant puppet representations of villains from British children's literature: the Queen of Hearts, Captain Hook, Cruella de Vil and Lord Voldemort. Minutes later, 32 women playing"
"relationship of scientific knowledge creation to copyright term length and concluded a decreased knowledge production on copyright term increases for the analysed context. As a curiosity, the work ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"" is subject in the UK to a special clause in the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 that granted Great Ormond Street Hospital a right to royalty in perpetuity. J M Barrie had gifted the copyright to the work to the hospital in 1929. The different copyright terms in the various jurisdictions has led to some disputes involving derivative works created and/or sold"
"Act 1988 but under transitional arrangements these printing rights do not fully expire until 2039. J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan (including the play ""Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up"" and its novelisation ""Peter and Wendy"") is covered by special legislation granting Great Ormond Street Hospital a right to royalties in perpetuity from commercial exploitation of the story on stage, in publication, and in broadcasts. However, this is not a perpetual copyright because the hospital does not retain creative control over the work, which entered the public domain in the UK in 2008, 70 years after the author's"
"into the novel ""Peter and Wendy"". In April 1929, Barrie gave the copyright of the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, a leading children's hospital in London. The current status of the copyright is somewhat complex. His final play was ""The Boy David"" (1936), which dramatised the Biblical story of King Saul and the young David. Like the role of Peter Pan, that of David was played by a woman, Elisabeth Bergner, for whom Barrie wrote the play. Barrie moved in literary circles and had many famous friends in addition to his professional collaborators. Novelist George Meredith was"
"Pan' by Sir James Matthew Barrie, or of any adaptation of that work, notwithstanding that copyright in the work expired on 31 December 1987. Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) claims that U.S. legislation effective in 1978 and again in 1998, which extended the copyright of the play script published in 1928, gives them copyright over ""Peter Pan"" in general until 2023, although GOSH acknowledges that the copyright of the novel version, published in 1911, has expired in the United States. Previously, GOSH's claim of U.S. copyright had been contested by various parties. J. E. Somma sued GOSH to permit the"
"with ""Peter Pan"", which he called ""that terrible masterpiece"". Upon Barrie's death in 1937, most of his estate and fortune went to his secretary Cynthia Asquith, and the copyright to the Peter Pan works had previously been given in 1929 to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London. Although Davies (and his surviving brothers) received a legacy, some have speculated that this drove Davies to drink — he eventually became an alcoholic. Davies's son Ruthven later told an interviewer: My father had mixed feelings about the whole business of Peter Pan. He accepted that Barrie considered that he was"
"The Children's Trust launched an on-line support centre for families of children affected by acquired brain injury - The Brain Injury Hub. This website offers a wealth of practical advice and information about a condition that's often misunderstood. There is also an on-line forum giving families the opportunity to share their stories and experiences. The Children’s Trust is a UK registered charity, number 288018. The Children's Trust's services include: Awards won by The Children's Trust: From 1927 until 1983, Tadworth Court was the country branch of Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1984, the Department of Health transferred management control to"
"chairman (1969–82) of Great Ormond Street Hospital, spotted a letter to a newspaper which pointed out that the copyright of ""Peter Pan"", which had been assigned by J. M. Barrie to the hospital, was going to expire at the end of that year, 1987 (50 years after Barrie's death, the current copyright term). In 1988, Callaghan moved an amendment to the Copyright Designs & Patents Act, then under consideration in the House of Lords, to grant the hospital a right to royalty in perpetuity despite the lapse of copyright, and it was passed by the government. In July 1996, he"
"and US. Five copies of a special edition, leather bound in a slipcase, were also printed; the author, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Oxford University Press, and HM The Queen (Patron of Great Ormond Street Hospital) each received one of these special edition books. The fifth was auctioned at the book launch. A new edition, fully illustrated in colour by David Wyatt, abridged by Geraldine McCaughrean for younger readers, was published in the UK in October 2008 by Oxford University Press. The novel returns to Wendy Darling, her brother John, and Nibs, Slightly, Tootles, the Twins and Curly, who were once"
"EU). The novel was first abridged by May Byron in 1915, with Barrie's permission, and published under the title ""Peter Pan and Wendy"", the first time this form was used. This version was later illustrated by Mabel Lucie Attwell in 1921. In 1929, Barrie gave the copyright of the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children's hospital in London. Barrie created Peter Pan in stories he told to the sons of his friend Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, with whom he had forged a special relationship. Mrs. Llewelyn Davies's death from cancer came within a few years after the"
"boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. Although he continued to write successfully, ""Peter Pan"" overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made a baronet by George V on 14 June 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from"
"Bank Robbery"". Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity benefited from royalties of the play, in accordance to the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 which granted them a right to royalty in perpetuity from adaptations of the story of ""Peter Pan"" on stage, publication and film in the UK. Like ""The Play That Goes Wrong"", ""Peter Pan Goes Wrong"" received positive reviews. WhatsOnStage.com gave it five out of five stars. The original West End run was nominated for the 2016 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy but lost to ""Nell Gwynn"". The play was adapted into"
"as a three volume affair scheduled for a 2002 release. The eventual publication proved controversial, with Moore himself describing the work as ""pornography"" and Chris Staros admitting that publication was ""putting the whole company on the line"". Before publication fears were raised that the book would prove hard to sell given its nature, and that there may be legal implications. However, the work received good reviews and the initial print run sold out in one day. The work has yet to be distributed in the United Kingdom, as the Great Ormond Street Hospital currently owns the copyright to ""Peter Pan""."
"a children's play area, Coram's Fields, which refuses entry to adults unaccompanied by children. In 2000, Jamila Gavin published a children's book called ""Coram Boy"" about the Foundling Hospital. The book was adapted into a play by Helen Edmundson, which had its world premiere at the Royal National Theatre in London in November 2005 and subsequently had a brief run on Broadway. His story and that of the Foundling Hospital lives on at the Foundling Museum in London. Attribution: Thomas Coram Captain Thomas Coram (c. 1668 – 29 March 1751) was a philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in"
"book ""Looking Back"" afterwards, featuring prints from his twenties. In October 2017 the aerial photography and philosophy book ""Above the Clouds"" was published by Prestel, with prints from the book exhibited in January 2018 at Hamiltons. Mead created The Mead Family Foundation in 1996, also assuming the role of chairman. After Great Ormond Street Hospital in London cured his infant child of leukaemia, Mead became a long-term supporter and board member of the institution. He has also endowed the Great Ormond Street Hospital's GOSH Arts program, where patients are immersed in the arts during often difficult treatments, potentially resulting in"
"granted a Royal Charter ""for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Children"" in 1739. Three years later in 1742 he established the Foundling Hospital at Lamb’s Conduit Fields in Bloomsbury, London. It was the first children's charity in the country and the precedent for incorporated associational charities everywhere. The school moved to its purpose built location in Berkhamsted in 1935. The residential home side at Berkhamsted closed following the Children Act 1948, when family centered care replaced institutional care. In 1951 Hertfordshire County Council took over running the school. The large school contains stained glass windows, especially around"
"detail by Charles Dickens in two pieces called 'A Small Star in the East' and 'On An Amateur Beat' published in ""The Uncommercial Traveller"". In 1932 it was renamed as the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children. A decade later, it amalgamated with the Queen's Hospital for Children, which had been founded in 1867 as the Dispensary for Women and Children. The newly merged institution was called Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children until its closure in 1963. Heckford Street, off the east end of The Highway, commemorates Dr. Heckford. Created in the early 21st century, it is a small"
"in Waterford, Michigan was dedicated in 1961 and closed in 2005; it is now the Lutes Campus of New Gateways, Inc., a non-profit which serves the mentally and developmentally disabled. ""Just Away: A Story of Hope"" (1906); ""Child, Home, and School"" (1911); ""Bible Stories from the Old Testament"" (1911); ""The Story of Life for Children"" (1914); ""My Boy in Khaki: A Mother's Story"" (book for infants; 1918); ""The Gracious Hostess: A Book of Etiquette"" (1923); ""Modern Priscilla Cook Book: One Thousand Recipes Tested and Proved at the Priscilla Proving Plant"" (1924); ""A Home of Your Own"" (1925); ""Table Setting and"
"was a great success and gave him sudden fame. After some unfortunate attempts to transform the Waterloo Dispensary for children into a hospital, he decided to start a fundraising campaign in order to establish in London a hospital specifically for children. Also due to his remarkable oratorical gifts, West’s campaign had success and, in the spring of 1851, a little hospital with ten beds was opened at 49 Great Ormond Street, in a house that had belonged to Richard Mead. In 1854, after three years of activity, Charles West - who was the first physician of the hospital - could"
"1935, moving to a new building in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire and the Bloomsbury building, including the chapel, was demolished. On the site today is a children's park, Coram's Fields. The Hospital eventually closed in 1955, and the Berkhamsted building converted into a secondary school, Ashlyns School. The Foundling Hospital charity once supported by Handel continues to this day as the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children (now known simply as Coram). The musical scores of the ""Foundling Hospital Anthem"" and ""Messiah"" donated by Handel to the Hospital are now on display at the Foundling Museum in London. Handel's Anthem is performed at"
"The BFG The BFG (short for The Big Friendly Giant) is a 1982 children's book written by British novelist Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. It is an expansion of a short story from Dahl's 1975 book ""Danny, the Champion of the World"". The book is dedicated to Dahl's late daughter, Olivia, who died of measles encephalitis at the age of seven in 1962. As of 2009, the novel has sold 37 million copies in UK editions alone, with more than 1 million copies sold around the world every year. An animated adaptation was shown on television in 1989"
"1830. The first, and possibly the most important collection to focus in this area was, James Orchard Halliwell's, ""The Nursery Rhymes of England"" (1842) and ""Popular Rhymes and Tales"" in 1849. At the height of the revival Sabine Baring-Gould produced ""A Book of Nursery Songs"" (1895), and Andrew Lang produced ""The Nursery Rhyme Book"" in 1897. Children's songs, unlike folk songs, have remained part of a living and continuous tradition, for although added to from other sources and affected by written versions, most adults pass on songs they learned from oral sources as children. It has been noted by most"
"the Local Government Act of 1929 the functions of the boards of guardians were transferred to the local authorities and Birmingham Corporation became responsible for the administration of public assistance and for 16 institutions containing 6,000 patients. Selly oak hospital, with 550 patients, was administered by the public health, maternity, and welfare committee becoming a general and not poor law hospital. For many years the workhouse and infirmary buildings have been used as offices and consulting rooms rather than as wards for patients. The main prosthetic limb production and fitment centre for the West Midlands is still functioning. The Centre"
"Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, Holmes was assistant surgeon from 1859 and then full surgeon from 1861 to 1868. Holmes wrote ""A Treatise on the Surgical Treatment of the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood"" (1868) and was the editor of the third through ninth editions of ""Gray's Anatomy"", preceded in the editorship by Henry Gray and succeeded by T. Pickering Pick. Holmes was the co-editor of the first 8 volumes of the journal ""St George's Hospital Reports"". With John S. Bristowe, Holmes published in 1863 a report, commissioned by the Privy Council, on the state of hospitals and their"
"lasting contribution to literature for children"". At the time it was awarded every three years. That year she was also U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international recognition available to creators of children's books. ""New York Times"" outstanding book of the year citations: 1983 – Newbery Honor Award, National Book Award, and Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor book,all for ""Homesick: My Own Story"". 1989 – Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, Orbis Pictus Award, National Council of English Teachers, for 1986 ""The Great Little Madison"" (1986) Jean Fritz Jean Guttery Fritz (November 16, 1915 – May 14,"
"which he also wrote. Ludwig Bemelmans' ""Madeline"" was published in 1939 and was selected as a Caldecott Medal runner-up, today known as a Caldecott Honor book. In 1942, Simon & Schuster began publishing the Little Golden Books, a series of inexpensive, well illustrated, high quality children's books. The eighth book in the series, ""The Poky Little Puppy"", is the top selling children's book of all time. Many of the books were bestsellers, including ""The Poky Little Puppy"", ""Tootle"", ""Scuffy the Tugboat"", ""The Little Red Hen"". Several of the illustrators for the Little Golden Books later became staples within the picture"
"Publications after both companies encouraged her to release a new book in 1929. After receiving the request, Potter revised the manuscript and illustrations for the publication, but her story faced delays due to Potter having a case of bronchitis. When the book was finally published, it was much more popular in Britain than America and required several reprints to meet demand. Potter took the income from the sales of ""The Tale of Little Pig Robinson"" to purchase the Monk Conniston Estate as an investment. ""The Tale of Little Pig Robinson"" has been called a conventional narrative when compared to some"
"Wouldn't Grow Up"" and the novel ""Peter and Wendy"") in the United Kingdom, it was granted a special exception under the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 (Schedule 6) that requires royalties to be paid for commercial performances, publications and broadcasts of the story of Peter Pan within the UK, as long as Great Ormond Street Hospital (to whom Barrie gave the copyright) continues to exist. In a paying public domain regime, works that have entered the public domain after their copyright has expired, or traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions that have never been subject to copyright, are still"
"the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, England as a dietician. While there she specialised in the treatment of coeliac disease and successfully developed a new diet to treat it, based on Bircher-Benner's recipes, involving raw vegetable and fruit juice; she was also involved in longitudinal comparative studies assessing various treatments for the condition. During the war, Loewenfeld wrote to ""The Times"" and the ""British Medical Journal"" about the negative impact the shortage of fresh fruit and vegetables was having on the nation's health, and advocated the collection and distribution of rose hips from the hedgerows, as"
"he earlier suggested giving back to the hen) to the lone responding policeman, who gladly and immediately eats it on the bedroom floor. I Am Not Going to Get Up Today! I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! is a children's book written by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss. It is illustrated by James Stevenson and was published by Random House on October 12, 1987. A boy decides to sleep in one day, extolling his deep pillow and warm bed. He boasts that his family, police, neighbours, news media and the U.S. Marines could do nothing"